Branches Quote by C. F. W. Walther

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

— Pope Pius XI

“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to the spawning…

— Derrick Jensen

“This idea of all education springing from and resting upon our relation to Almighty God-we do not merely give a religious education because that…

— Charlotte Mason

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is…

— Noah Webster

“The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

“Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord,…

— Boyd K. Packer

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of…

— Catharine Beecher

“The world is the schoolroom of God. Our being in school does not make us learn, but within that school is the opportunity for…

— Manly P. Hall

“For the immense extension of the scale of education and its ramification into a hundred specialisms and technical disciplines has left the state as…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked…

— Horace Mann

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences…

— Joseph Stiglitz

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

— George Washington